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To get a picture that most accurately represents the blu-ray movie, should I be setting the sharpness on my TV to zero or the midway point?
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Steve Yun posted:To get a picture that most accurately represents the blu-ray movie, should I be setting the sharpness on my TV to zero or the midway point? Every calibration guide and whatnot I've ever seen recommends setting it to zero. And, out of the box, brightness and contrast should be cranked down big time as well. Check out AVSforum for a thread on your TV, and find somebody's calibration settings. Start there and adjust around those until you get what you want.
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Dec 9, 2010 14:41
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I used to love Deep Discount, but yeah they're pretty lovely these days. Maybe they always were and I just got lucky before. Not only do they take forever to ship, but the packaging they use is awful and has led to at least 2 of my purchases to be damaged in transit. Their prices aren't even all that much better than what Amazon offers these days.
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Dec 9, 2010 16:02
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doctor thodt posted:Battle Royale reviewed Steve Yun posted:To get a picture that most accurately represents the blu-ray movie, should I be setting the sharpness on my TV to zero or the midway point?
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Dec 9, 2010 16:30
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Deep Discount was great when their sales were more substantial. But these days the price difference is only marginal compared to what you get with Amazon and their superior service. Their non-free shipping is presumably better than the free shipping I've always used, but at that point, why even bother?
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Dec 9, 2010 16:35
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Nate RFB posted:I used to love Deep Discount, but yeah they're pretty lovely these days. Maybe they always were and I just got lucky before. Not only do they take forever to ship, but the packaging they use is awful and has led to at least 2 of my purchases to be damaged in transit. Their prices aren't even all that much better than what Amazon offers these days. I loved them back in 2003 or so. Shipping always only took a few days to get to me. And then all of a sudden one day it changed and started taking so long that I have been avoiding them unless absolutely necessary for years. Customer service sucks, processing time to get a shipment out to you sucks, packaging sucks. Rarely is it worth saving a few bucks to me to order through them nowadays.
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Dec 9, 2010 17:38
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My first experience with Deep Discount was the Breaking Bad 2 for 1 sale. I won't be buying from them again unless the deal is extreme. After 2 months I received the first season of Breaking Bad. I'm still waiting on the second season. I tried to cancel my order when the Amazon deal showed up around black Friday but that didn't seem to work as the order remained open on their website. So now I'm kind of in limbo about whether the second season is going to ship. I sent an email to customer service day before yesterday and I'm waiting to hear back.
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Dec 9, 2010 17:55
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While we're on the topic of shipping, what's the consensus on YesAsia.com? I just placed an order for a couple items (and I'm eyeballing that Avatar steelbook), and I'm wondering if they'll even get here by Christmas. The shipping info says "between 6 and 14 business days", but that could mean "between next week and next Christmas" for all I know.
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Dec 9, 2010 18:17
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Had a strange issue come up and was hoping someone had an answer for me. I picked up a new laptop a few months ago, and it came with a bluray drive. I have watched blu ray movies on it no problem, they look great. However, when I use an HDMI cable to connect my laptop to my HDTV the player will not display on the movie on my tv. Is this a player issue or something I don't know about?
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Dec 9, 2010 18:56
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Jay Dub posted:While we're on the topic of shipping, what's the consensus on YesAsia.com? I just placed an order for a couple items (and I'm eyeballing that Avatar steelbook), and I'm wondering if they'll even get here by Christmas. I've placed several orders from YesAsia and most of them have taken 6-7 business days to reach me in Florida. Memories of Matsuko 2/14 Waiting for Superman 2/22 Treme Season 1 3/29 Confessions 4/11
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Dec 9, 2010 19:05
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Thanks for the info, guys. As it turns out, I was watching Shoshanna running from Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, and noticed that anything above zero sharpness was giving her annoyingly obvious edge enhancement (when her dark silhouette was against the bright sky)
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Dec 9, 2010 20:24
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Steve Yun posted:Thanks for the info, guys. As it turns out, I was watching Shoshanna running from Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, and noticed that anything above zero sharpness was giving her annoyingly obvious edge enhancement (when her dark silhouette was against the bright sky)
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Dec 9, 2010 20:33
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My Samsung back home seemed to have '20' (out of 100) as neutral/no sharpening, and anything below that as 'soften' instead. My Toshiba is set to 0. A good way to determine what the setting to be is to turn overscan off and hook up a laptop and load a Word document or something.
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Dec 9, 2010 20:42
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Toy Story 1 dropped down to $11.99 on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030IIYWA?ie=UTF8&tag=evdaisafi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0030IIYWA -edit And you can get $10 off if you order Toy Story 3. Making it $25.98 for both. http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.h...creative=390957 Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Dec 9, 2010 |
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Dec 9, 2010 20:45
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fenix down posted:What brand of TV do you have? My Sony Bravia looks pretty sweet with the sharpness cranked up to like 20 (out of 30). I thought everything looked great at 15/30 sharpness for the first few minutes (OMG you can see every pore in everyone's skin!) but after a while I started noticing halos in high contrast shots and now I'm concluding that anything above 0 is artificially added sharpening.
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Dec 9, 2010 20:50
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Steve Yun posted:Bravia EX400 46"
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Dec 9, 2010 20:55
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Sporadic posted:Toy Story 1 dropped down to $11.99 on Amazon. Came here to post this, but you beat me to it... insane deal if you don't own them already. Now I just need a copy of Toy Story 2 for $12.99 or less to round out the trilogy.
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Dec 9, 2010 21:45
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Lost in Translation reviewed
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Dec 9, 2010 23:10
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doctor thodt posted:Lost in Translation reviewed Is that the actual case? Scrunched and stroked text in this year of our lord 2010?
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Dec 9, 2010 23:25
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Nah, just a placeholder. The box art on amazon is different
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Dec 9, 2010 23:51
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doctor thodt posted:Lost in Translation reviewed But hey, Universal.
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Dec 10, 2010 00:13
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Rirse posted:Anyone know the cheapest place to buy the Spider-Man trilogy on blu-ray? I know Spider-Man 3 is more common then dirt, but Sony decided to be jerks and made Spider-Man 1 and 2 hard to get for a half decent price. Trilogy is $23.99 at B&N right now. http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?EAN=43396226333&x=5416912
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Dec 10, 2010 00:48
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Man, all of that talk about sharpness just reminded me that I own around 60 blu-rays and still haven't gotten an HD-TV yet.  I really need to get on that.
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Dec 10, 2010 02:27
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Sheldrake posted:Man, all of that talk about sharpness just reminded me that I own around 60 blu-rays and still haven't gotten an HD-TV yet. Well, there's no Billy Wilder films out yet.
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Oh hey, Pulp Fiction might actually happen in 2011? http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/12/09/entertainment-broadcasting-amp-entertainment-us-miramax-lang_8194850.html And the US Santa Sangre disc is nice and loaded: quote:Both the two-DVD set and the Blu-ray will sport restored widescreen transfers of the film’s uncut European edition, and the supplements are:
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Egbert Souse posted:Well, there's no Billy Wilder films out yet. Too true. 
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Dec 10, 2010 05:29
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SANTA SANGRE COME TO ME
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Fayez Butts posted:Is that the actual case? Scrunched and stroked text in this year of our lord 2010? They want, no, need you to know who wrote and directed that film.
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Dec 10, 2010 06:59
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Sheldrake posted:Man, all of that talk about sharpness just reminded me that I own around 60 blu-rays and still haven't gotten an HD-TV yet.
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Jeff Wiiver posted:Wait, so do you not watch them at all? Or do you just hook your blu-ray player to an SDTV and watch them that way? Let's hope they have a PS3 hooked to a SDTV (or better yet, EDTV) and are just waiting on a sweet deal on a 3D LED.
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Jay Dub posted:While we're on the topic of shipping, what's the consensus on YesAsia.com? I just placed an order for a couple items (and I'm eyeballing that Avatar steelbook), and I'm wondering if they'll even get here by Christmas. YesAsia has not in the past seven years let me down. They cater to the Asian Expat Communities in North America and Europe so they make it their business to ship pretty quickly. I usually buy CDs from them and the last time I did it took four or so days to reach me in Connecticut. Unruly Amoeba fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Dec 11, 2010 |
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Dec 10, 2010 22:41
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Dark Knight for 9.99 (currently in stock) on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_i=507846
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The Bob Dylan doc Don't Look Back is coming to BD April 26. Here's another Battle Royale review. My copy shipped this morning! And a review for JPJ's Micmacs. Bambi special features: quote:* Inside Walt's Story Meetings-Enhanced Edition (new): A multi-tiered, interactive story-telling experience. Go back in time with dramatic voice re-enactments of the moments with Walt that led to the creation of this classic film.
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I'm looking to get into blu-ray. I know nothing about players or what to get. I basically was hoping you guys could tell me what the best thing I could get for around 150$ is?
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Dec 11, 2010 21:33
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Aardvark Barber posted:I'm looking to get into blu-ray. I know nothing about players or what to get. Half of a PS3.
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Dec 11, 2010 21:39
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Get a PS3 at BB this week... it'll cost you $299 out of pocket, but you'll gain Cars on Blu, LittleBigPlanet and ModNation Racers games, and a $50 gift card for free.
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Dec 11, 2010 22:38
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Aardvark Barber posted:I'm looking to get into blu-ray. I know nothing about players or what to get. Check out this thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3356624
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To elaborate, everyone suggests a PS3, because it updates regularly, and if you're a goon, that must mean you enjoy some sort of videogames, so the PS3 helps with that, and the PS3 makes for a decent netflix, other media player as well (support for external harddrives, flash drives, and I think even ipods) A little bit more expensive than what most people would want to pay, but the slim PS3 is a pretty solid machine.
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I checked the thread, and it seems like my most likely choice is the LG BD570, which seems to have solid features all around and isn't that much more than my target price.
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doctor thodt posted:Lost in Translation reviewed I've been waiting forever for this and didn't even know it was coming out on blu. I've been listening to the soundtrack again this week and hearing about this is just awesome. Cannot wait to get it! 
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